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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1856

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Victoria. Class I. (Mining and Metallurgical Products.) Bbonze Medal

Empire · Friday 4 July 1856 · page 2

The Commissioners for the Colony of Victoria. CLASS II. (FORESTRY, ETC., AND PRODUCTS OBTAINED WITHOUT CULTIVATION.)…

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Fingal Gold Fields. the Rev. W. B. Clarke's Report. (From the Hobart Town Government Gazette, 23rd June.) Fingal Gold Exploration Committee. Hobart Town, 20th June, 1856

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 July 1856 · page 2

The Gold Committee have directed the publication for general information, of a letter which they have received from the Rev. W. B. Clarke, reporting the result of his visit to the Fingal gold-fields…

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Mining Intelligence. the New Gold Field

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 2

A great deal of excitement has prevailed in our town during the last few days, owing to the rumours which were disseminated far and wide, of the large quantities of gold said to have been…

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The Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 4

The accounts that have lately been received from our gold-fields are very encouraging. At all the old diggings the diggers are doing very well, and, considering the small number that are engaged in this…

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Yesterday's Receipt of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 4

THE Western Escort arrived yesterday from the respective gold fields, and delivered at the Colonial Treasury the following quantities of gold dust;— From Sofala: 388 oz. 2 dwts. 12 grs.; Tambaroora, 337 oz. 14…

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The Southern Gold Fields. [From Our Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 3

LITTLE RIVER.—These diggings are not now so prosperous as they were some months ago. Not only is the population rapidly diminishing, but the yields even in extraordinary cases, are by no moans so large us they formerly were. This place affords anything…

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The New Gold Field. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 2.)

Empire · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 2

A great deal of excitement has prevailed in our town during the last few days, owing to the rumours which were disseminated far and wide, of the large quantities of gold said to have been dug up on Stoney Creek, and…

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The New Gold Field. (From the Bathurst Free Press, July 2.)

Empire · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 2

A great deal of excitement, has prevailed in our town during the last few days, owing to the rumours which were disseminated far and wide, of the large quantities of gold said to have been dug up on Stoney Creek, and…

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The New Gold Field. (From the Bathu[?]st Free Press of Wednesday.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 3

A great deal of excitement has prevailed in our town during the last few days, owing to the rumours which were disseminated far and wide, of the large quantities of gold said to have been dag up on Stoney, Creek, and tranmitted per mail to Bathurst. Some of…

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Arrival of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 July 1856 · page 2

The Derwent, from Melbourne, had arrived, with 7965 ounces of gold, value £31,860 sterling…

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Our Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 July 1856 · page 2

A REACTION has taken place. Thousands of diggers are engaged in our various gold mines— extending ia almost every direction, north, south, and west. We have received private…

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The Revival of Gold-digging Enterprise. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 11 July 1856 · page 5

SIR—I hardly need offer any apology for endeavouring by a few remarks, at this moment, to direct the attention of my fellow-colonists to the prospects of extended activity daily brightening over our gold flolds; towards…

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Yesterday's Receipt of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 July 1856 · page 5

THE Western and Southern Escorts arrived yesterday from the respective gold fields, and delivered at the Colonial Treasury the following quantities of gold dust:— WESTERN.—From Bathurst, 88 [?] 5 dwts 10 grs; Sofals,…

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Mining Intelligence. Important News From the Stoney Creek Diggings

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 12 July 1856 · page 2

We have received from a friend who has just returned from this gold-field, information, which not only confirms the truth of the reports already in circulation respecting its richness, but also…

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The Empire. Saturday, July 12, 1856. the Gold Fields of New South Wales

Empire · Saturday 12 July 1856 · page 4

A WISE Government will foster every legitimate enterprise which tends to bring the country over which it presides into industrial preeminence. The remark has been made more…

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Gold News

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 July 1856 · page 5

A CORRESPONDENT of high respectability, writes from Bathurst as follows:—"The new diggings without doubt, are of considerable importance, hundreds are flocking to them, an idle man is a scarce article in…

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Truth and Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 July 1856 · page 3

Truth is said to be at the bottom of a well, just as gold is said to be 'buried in the mine; when the truth is that both are scattered about the world, and we have seldom to go deep for either. The sages…

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The Gold Fields

Empire · Tuesday 15 July 1856 · page 5

During the last few days an unusual degree of excitement has prevailed in this city respecting the recently discovered gold fields at Stoney Creek and Rocky River, in consequence of information of a highly encouraging…

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The Western Gold Fields. (From the Bathurst Free Press of Saturday.) Stoney Creek Diggings

Empire · Tuesday 15 July 1856 · page 3

From a gentleman who left Stoney Creek a few days ago, after a careful enquiry into the position of affairs we learn the following particulars:— The diggers on the Stock-yard Creek up to the time…

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Our Gold Fields

Empire · Wednesday 16 July 1856 · page 4

MANY persons who have carefully observed the progress of gold digging in this and the neighbouring colony have long entertained the opinion that in New South Wales…

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